sending email to personal email address from ispconfig server and sometimes receiving email from the personal email address very shortly, say 5 seconds, but sometimes take several days. why? even the later sent out email could be received in several seconds time, but the earlier sent out email is received in several days later. why? quite confused.

I want to forward the domain registered in Godaddy system to my static ip address.

Login to the web config page of my modem (point to my static ip address), I can see the primary DNS & secondary DNS for internet service in my modem.

I replace the Nameserver 1 & Nameserver 2 for my domain registered in Godaddy site by login into Godaddy system with the primary DNS & secondary DNS for internet service in my modem. But there is "Invalid TLS" message when click Ok button.

May you help or give some advice on this, so I can successfully forward my domain in Godaddy system to my static ip address.

There is a static IP address, 219.88.70.31, assigned to my modem by my ISP. The modem connects to a router (DHCP disabled) and the router connects to a local host (with local static IP address, e.g. 192.168.5.10). The ISPconfig server is installed in this local host with hostname www.smartracksolutions.com (registered in Godaddy system).

In Godaddy system, after forwarding the domain to 219.88.70.31, the "Total DNS" is as below:

in your perfect-server-ubuntu-9.10-karmic-koala-ispconfig-2.html tutorial, for the example hostname server1.example.com, if my website is www.mywebsite.com, the server1 is equivalent to www, example is equivalent to mywebsite, right?

In Godaddy, i update the Total DNS ARecord to point to my static IP address, but when I browse my website address, there is still problem. it looks like the ISPconfig server hasn't been configured properly.

in your previous email, you suggested "usea domain of its own for namig your servers, i.e., a domain that you don't use for web sites and email.", so do i need to register another paid domain for my ispconfig server? for email, again do i need to register another paid domain for it as well? if that is the case, i will have 3 registered paid domains (i only have one for my website at the moment).

my website domain is smartracksolutions.com, can i use smartracksolutions.info as email server domain & smartracksolutions.us for ispconfig server domain? email server and ispconfig server are both installed in one PC at the moment (by following "The perfect server ... " instruction).

the reason i ask above question is that when i do "ping www.google.com" and "ping mail.google.com", from the return, it looks that the domains need to follow some naming standard.

for "ping www.google.com", what is the difference between domains "www.google.com", "www.l.google.com", "lax04s01-in-f147.1e100.net", ip address "66.102.7.147"?

for "ping mail.google.com", what is the difference between domains "mail.google.com", "googlemail.l.google.com", "lax04s01-in-f17.1e100.net", ip address "66.102.7.17"?

thanks for the reply, but a bit confused when combining your previous replies together.

at the moment, i only have one paid domain, smartracksolutions.com (for my website). do you mean i have to create another paid domain, e.g. smartracksolutions.info, for my ispconfig server? and create subdomains under this ispconfig server for other servers, e.g. mail.smartracksolutions.info for mail server etc?

if it is, do you have any information on how to do this, e.g. a web link?

when i used dynamic ip address before (with ****.dyndns.org domain), i installed squirrelmail within ispconfig control panel and could login into squirrelmail through default 81 port, could send or receive email occasionally, but have never been able to make the whole email system work perfectly.

now i use the static ip address (with smartracksolutions.com/info domain), installed squirrelmail within ispconfig control panel, but cannot login into squirrelmail through default 81 port anymore. is there any compatibility between ispconfig (ispconfig 2 actually) and the squirrlemail (version 1.4.20 at the moment)? moreover, can you help to provide some information to make the whole email system (with squirrlemail as webmail) work?